Weathering Shakespeare

Audiences and Open-air Performance

AvEvelyn O'Malley,Richard Kerridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book PrizeFrom The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare’s plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-19
Mått:154 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350202443
Utmärkelser:Winner of ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2022 (UK)

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Evelyn O'Malley is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.

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For O'Malley, coming to terms with our connection to the world around us - to the atmosphere, the landscape and the creatures with which we share it - is crucial to combating the climate crisis.

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IntroductionPart One Chapter One Performing Pastoral: A New Form of Poetic RepresentationChapter Two Light them at the Fiery Glow-Worm’s Eyes: Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Regent’s Park Open Air TheatrePart TwoChapter Three Shakespeare-InspiredNature-Theaters: MinackandtheWillowGlobeChapter Four Wandering in Woods: The Natural Place for the PlayPart ThreeChapter Five Green Atmospheres: Nature Playing (Along, Sometimes)Chapter Six Shakespeare for a Changing ClimateAfterwordBibliographyIndex